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Splash screens
Raised as a usability problem by 9 people on Hacker News over 6 years (2008–2013), in 6 threads.
People raised many different problems with Splash screens, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 9 complaints
- Splash image shows an empty UI that differs from the screen the user actually sees after launch2013-07-10
- Pages show only a logo and take ages to load before content appears2013-04-07
- Visitor can't tell what the product does and leaves; page also loads slowly2012-08-30
- Blue dots look non-clickable, and clicking through them is tedious and overwhelming2012-08-25
- App shows interface that can't be used for a long time while loading2012-02-20
- Startup makes users wait while all third-party tools initialize instead of caching them2012-02-20
- A splash screen shows a fake UI and mini-game during 5-10 second load, making loading worse2012-02-20
- Visitor cannot tell what the service does after 15-20 seconds2008-07-08
- Commenter had to reread the tagline several times to understand what the site does2008-07-08